Etymology

Thunar

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Today it means: The god Thor in continental Germanic mythology. Full definition →

German Thunar ← Old Saxon Thunær ← Proto-West Germanic *Þunr
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*Þunr
  2. Old Saxon · derived fromThunær
  3. German · borrowed fromThunar
  4. English todayThunar

Borrowed from German Thunar, a learned borrowing from Old Saxon Thunær, from Proto-West Germanic *Þunr. Doublet of Thor, Thunor, and thunder.

Words from the same roots

Proto-West Germanic*Þunr all →

thunder

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.